Jane Gaskell

Jane Gaskell is a British fantasy writer. She wrote her first novel Strange Evil, when she was 14. It was published two years later. In 1970 she received the Somerset Maugham Award for her novel A Sweet Sweet Summer (jointly with Piers Paul Read who received it for his Monk Dawson.) China Miéville lists Strange Evil as one of the top 10 examples of weird fiction.